User talk:Philipmj24

2012 FINA championships

Philip, I have taken the 2012 FINA championship articles off of my watch list, as you and other interested editors seem to have these articles well in hand. If anyone attempts to delete any of these FINA championship articles or nominates any of them for AfD, please let me know immediately.

I am continuing to work on the biographies of U.S. Olympic swim team members. All 700+ Olympic swimmer bios are now properly formatted, including "Infobox swimmer," applicable categories, and links to related "see also" articles. We also have navboxes for all U.S. Olympic swim teams from 1912 to 2012.

My plan is to continue to improve the main body text of these articles while adding footnoted sources (which are sorely lacking in many). Apart from the obvious on-line Olympic databases like Sports-Reference.com, it would be helpful if we could compile a list of all known competitive swimming references on the WikiProject Swimming page, including both on-line and hard-copy references. I recently came across a recent book called the "Encyclopedia of Swimming" (or something like that) and will probably buy a used copy of it on Amazon in the coming weeks. I am sure there are other general Olympic and swimming-specific refs out there. We also need references for the AAU swimming championships, which served as the U.S. national championships until the 1970s, and the NCAA swimming championships. Please let me know what other good sources you have found. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 00:55, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Dirtlawyer, I don't believe there will be any issues with the 2012 FINA Championship articles as most of them are expanded and properly sourced. If there's any attempt in deleting them, I will inform you. All things considered, that whole experience has really dampened my spirits on Wikipedia. However, I'm committed to getting over it and getting back to work. In hindsight, I did overreact to that incident and could of handled it better. I did learn a lot from it though and hope to avoid that in the future. Again, I appreciate and thank you for coming to my defense, but more importantly coming to the articles defense.

As for the articles, I've seen your work in formatting them and I'm following that precedent when I'm creating new athlete bios. Please tell me if there is anything I'm missing. I do agree, there can be better work done in adding references (especially to the older swimmers) in their articles. I find it difficult though to find any online sources for them, so I think a hard-copy reference will be our best bet. When you find the details of that book, could you send me the info? I may also buy it if I like what I see. Now you said you needed references for the AAU swimming championships. Are you talking about results? The USA Swimming site has links for meets as early as 1920. You can go here (http://usaswimming.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabId=1834&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en) to browse. As for the NCAA meets, I will have to look, but I will tell you if I come across anything. I will keep an eye open though for sources and relay them back to you if I find any.

My next major task to to get Michael Phelps's article to FA status. I have tried before (twice), but failed. However, I was able to get it to GA status. I have school starting in a couple of weeks though, so it will have to be something for the future. I have his books and everything, it's just a matter of me sitting down and committing to it. Philipmj24 (talk) 03:13, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

RfA: thank you for your support

Philip, thank you, once again, for your kind words and support during my RfA. I look forward to continuing to work with you on Olympic swimming and other articles of interest. Cheers. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 15:19, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

EotW

Hey Philip. Nice to meet you. Your well deserved nomination will be reviewed (just a forrmality) and will then go into a "Q" of other Nominations. So...in about two months I hope you will be surprised all over again. We clerks at Editor of the Week have tried to keep nominations secret which has recently been hampered with the new Notification Procedure. Thanks for coming to my talk. Otherwise I would not been aware that the new procedure lets "the cat out of the bag". TRA! ```Buster Seven Talk 12:32, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

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FYI: response and US swim trials

Philipmj24, just 2 FYIs:

1. I've responded to your question/comment on my talk page.
2. Also, at the USA swimming Olympic Trials, the 2nd, 3rd and 4th place finishers in the 100 and 200 frees are the second group of qualifiers onto the team, after the 1st place finishers in the event. The second place finishers in all the other events come after those relay swimmers (since '88; possibly before as well). So the 3rd place finishers in the 100 and 200 frees should be marked as on the team, if the 2nd place finishers are.

Thanks for your question. -- Hooperswim (talk) 20:50, 10 June 2013 (UTC)

DYK nomination of 1988 United States Olympic Trials (swimming)

Hello! Your submission of 1988 United States Olympic Trials (swimming) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Crispulop (talk) 12:53, 14 June 2013 (UTC)

Editor of the Week

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I would like to nominate Editor Philipmj24. I stumbled across the editor when reviewing random page and noticed he has helped get a number articles to GA status as a reviewer, has over 12,000 contribs, with over 93% of them being to article space and over 600 of them being to start new articles. That alone is worthy of note. While the ride has sometimes been bumpy, he has continued to work hard in his efforts to make Wikipedia a better encyclopedia. Semper Fi.

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Thanks again for your efforts! The Interior (Talk) 18:38, 30 June 2013 (UTC)

Semper Fi

Philipmj24

Editor of the Week for the week beginning June 30, 2013

A veteran editor who deserves the community's acknowledgement and appreciation, Philipmj24 writes about athletic topics, especially swimming. He has served in the United States Marine Corps, and currently studies at Missouri State University. A prolific article creator, he has started over 610 new articles for the encyclopedia. He participates in the Good Article process, helps out with vandalism maintenance, and has an astounding 93% article-space edit ratio.

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creating over 600 articles and fighting vandalism wherever he finds it.

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• Your level of participation and article improvement is an example for all Wikipedia editors. ```Buster Seven Talk 02:41, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
• Congratulations on your GAs and many other contributions. -- Khazar2 (talk) 11:23, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
• Also wanted to express my gratitude for your hard work! Congratulations. I, Jethrobot ^{drop me a line} (note: not a bot!) 00:50, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
• Congratulations, your dedication to content creation is very impressive! --Cerebellum (talk) 01:32, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
• Dedicated content creators like yourself are the lifeblood of this project. Go Phightins! 20:53, 7 July 2013 (UTC)